"President Donald Trump likes to boast that he’s breaking records with the latest low unemployment figures. Here’s another record for his administration: The 2018 federal deficit hit the highest level of the last six years.

The deficit jumped 17 percent (or by $113 billion) to $779 billion at the end of Trump’s first fiscal year, according to final figures released Monday by the Treasury Department. That’s mostly due to the massive corporate tax cut that slashed rates from 35 percent to 21 percent, choking revenue for spending, which climbed 3 percent. Much of that was a hike in defense spending and money to pay interest on the climbing federal debt, CNN reported.

The U.S. government’s $523 billion in interest payments to service its debt in 2018 — the highest ever — was more than the entire economic output of Belgium this year, Bloomberg reported."

Does this surprise anyone? Not me, I've been saying for a while that the Putin/Trump agenda is the ruination of America's economy ("America first"), and then the economy of the EU. They seem to be right on track to do just that.

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It's interesting to see Trump admit that he lies, but will his fan base ever believe that?

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, belongs the right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege. - The Republic

Known liars ... George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR ...

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I am looking forward to Election Day when people who despise Trump win. The House at least. The Senate seems unlikely.

The saddest part, but almost sensible, is that the theists will support Trump in spite of his faults that far out range anything previous Presidents did in spite of his immoral and unethical behavior and views. He gave them 2 radical insane SCOTUS and they forgive him for everything.

I am looking forward to Election Day when people who despise Trump win. The House at least. The Senate seems unlikely.

The saddest part, but almost sensible, is that the theists will support Trump in spite of his faults that far out range anything previous Presidents did in spite of his immoral and unethical behavior and views. He gave them 2 radical insane SCOTUS and they forgive him for everything.

That's sick!

Maybe. I dred elections now. Someone will be disappointed. Will they start a civil war? Democrats do. Just one step closer to elections being banned, replaced by dictatorship. And yes, you are partisan ... as are most other people. I am not in this sense, I hate inhumanity, which seems to be brought to the fore by politics. The center cannot hold, as long as the wings find it profitable to divide and disintegrate the US.

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